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` G. GRISB'L. MOQUETTE GUIDE EOR'GARPETJ SEWING MACHINES. No. 333,125.

A Patent-edDec. 2.9, 1885.

INVENTOR WITNE S SE S:

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No. 333,125. Pnmnea 1366.29, 1885.

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GEORGE GEisEL,

PATENT Erica.

OF NEW YORKJN. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE SINGER MANU- FAGTURING COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY.

MoQUETTE-GUIDE FoaoARPET-SEWING MACHINES. A'

I SPECIFICATION fermi-ing part ef Letters Peten: No. 333,125, dated December 29, 1835. i

Application filed-June 23,1885. Serial No. 169,552. (No model.) l 1 T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE GRIsEL, a citizen of France, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,

haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Moquette-Guides for Carpet-Sewing Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

ro My invention relates to certain improvements to be used with the carpet-sewing machine covered by my Patent No. 296,744, dated April l5, 1884, the object of my present invention being to provide certain improved devices for controlling the edges of the fabrics being sewed when the machine is working on moquette or other similar carpets having a long pile, which is apt to interfere with the Sewing.

2o In carrying my invention into effect I construct a turning-in guide, somewhat similar to that shown in my above-named patent, but having the outer iianges on the lower side t-hereof, which form the guiding-recesses for the edges of the carpets,eXtended rearward of the transverse recess forming the needle-passage.

In place of the separating horn or blade on the turning-in guide shown by said patent, I use a wedge-shaped reciprocating piler77 or 3o pile-deflector, which is adj ustably attached to a rod passing upward through a steadying-lug on the turning-in guide, and connected with some moving part of the machine, as an eX- tension from the hub ofthe needle-arm. The

turning-in guide is adjustable relative to the path of the needle, as in my patent referred to, and the piler is adjustable on its supporting-rod independently of the turning-in guide.

ln the drawings, Figure l is a front view of my machine, showing my improvements in operative positions. Fig. 2 is a detail front view of my pile-deflector and tu rning-in guide; and Figs. 3 and 4 are side views of the same.

Fig. 5 is a detail top view of the piledeliector,

Figs. 7 and 8 are detail plan and rear views, respectively, of the turning-in guide.

D indicates a block, forming the turning-in guide, said block having in its lower face guid- 5o ing-passages, d, formed by flanges ci at the sides thereof, and a central turning-in blade, d2, said flan ges being mainly in front of the transverse recess or needle-passage d, but extending also rearward of said recess. This construction enables the block or guide to rest more firmly on the edges of the fabrics F than the form of guide shown by my patent aforesaid.

A and B indicate the plates between which the block D is secured, said block having, besides the downwardly-projecting inclined 6o turning-in blade d2, a slot, h, for the passage of the attaching-screw, and steady-pins, i, extending into slots in said plates, as in my prior patent. The block D is also provided at its top with a forwardly-proj ectinglugpd, through which passes a rod, C, and to thelower end of the latter is removably and adjustably attached by a set-screw, e, the wedge shaped piler or pile-detlector E, having an inclined lower face, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, 7o and tapering rearwardly and downwardly, as shown in said figures and in Figs. 5 and 6. The rod C passes upward through the lug d3, which serves to steady the same, and is attached at its upper end to some moving part of the machine, so as to be reciprocated thereby.

In the present instance I have shown said rod as being attached to an'arm, G', extending from the hub of the needle bar or arm G.

When constructed as above described, and 8O attached to the machine as shown, the piledeflector moves forward with the machine along the edges of the fabrics, as F, which are being sewed, in front of the turning-in guide, and, owing to its construction and reciprocat- 8 5 ing movement, it pushes the pile of the fabrics downward or inward below or inside of the line of stitches.

As the pile-deflector is adjustable on its supporting-rod C independently of the turni-ng- 9o in guide, it is adapted for use with fabrics having different lengths of pile, the turning-in guide being also adjustable, as in my prior patent, to vary the distance of the line of stitches from the edges ofthe fabrics.

My invention is particularly adapted for use in sewing moquette and other similar velvet carpets having a long soft pile, and it may therefore very properly be termed a moomette-guide7 for carpet-sewing machines. Ico

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a carpet-sewing machine, the combination, with a turningin guide, of a reciprocating piler or pile-deflector tapering rearwardly and downwardly, said pile-deflector being arranged in front of said guide and movable independently thereof in a plane at right angles to the feed, substantially as set forth.

2. In a carpetsewing machine, the combination, with a turning-in guide, of a reciprocating pi1edeflector tapering rearwardly and downwardly, and arranged in front of said guide, said pile-deflector being adjustable i11- dependently of said guide, and also movable independently thereof in a plane at right an gles to the feed, substantially as set forth.

8. Aturning-in guide for carpet-sewing Inachines, having at its top a forwardly-projecting perforated lug, combined with arod passing through said lug, means for reciprocating said rod, and a rearwardly and downwardly zo tapering pile-deflector arranged in front of said guide and adj ustably attached to said rod, s ubstantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the plates A and B, of the turning-in guide D, having a trans- 25 verse needle-recess, d4, and the anges d', forward and rearward of said needle-recess, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE GRISEL. Witnesses:

AUG. M. NooNAN, WILLIAM L. BOBINE. 

